1. the branch of medicine treating of the essential nature of disease, especially of the changes in body tissues and organs that cause or are caused by disease. 2. the structural and functional manifestations of a disease. adj., adj pathologÂ´ic, pathologÂ´ical.
The definition of receptive is someone who is open and willing to receive something or to hear or learn something new. 1  An example of someone who would be described as receptive is a person who is open and willing to hear a new idea. An example of someone who would be described as receptive is an audience of people who are willing to welcome a speaker and listen with an open mind.
/conÂ·fronÂ·taÂ·tion/ (konâ³frun-taÂ´shun) a therapeutic technique constituting the act of facing or being made to face one's own attitudes and shortcomings, the way one is perceived, and the consequences of one's behavior, or of causing another to face these things. It is a therapeutic technique which demonstrates where change must begin, but which also has destructive potential.